Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 218df19efc764060…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 15:55:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8e224a4f7a06273134964b7362f5480d SHA-1: 83574005944a17f2ea9da41523b4c0a76b2ca08c SHA-256: 218df19efc76406017b434ef59f60aff6a5e706a058e0e73e9390f81d4f1b993
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm on disposable hosting and a lure to install browser extensions or updates. The presence of multiple URLs, some pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/risorakaxasobovuwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88fb52eb91b5a8b87328088354c136a4/gekotekitifawotipize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruishikaishi.com/upload/content/files/2021/09/20210911174557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41512977118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/muverimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuclocvienjsc.com/uploads/image/files/nawetokome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210906122746304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.ca/files/file/napulixomitotuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad352e96ef---xufokuponiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/78097919911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/bildbank/file/37174467357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613494c3f0498---mapoluwipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/49451955129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/betixido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17838005177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f14f1bbfaf---54761076668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pro9apps.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/navafaxuwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d39799a23---vowadop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsti.biz/files/fck/file/95166289199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b8bce3382d7ed55c262ad8a5d12dc0b/24439957318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/34204099063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/94543843137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/85003495380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doctour.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32055280810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beverburcht.nl/upload/files/42980539202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+adblock+disablePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e91d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE91D 17972 bytes
SHA-256: a111f6b55b1e289b665199c0c73335258333153a6a405c4c95392d0a31b26f51
font_01_sfnt_off0001186d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1186D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13084 10696 bytes
SHA-256: cf48a76d0933b2a1d68615ebae9732ddd6c7161c22fbff23bd4195cc2c0da0a7